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[musicisthenameofthegame]

Starting a new poll game!

Put your liked songs on shuffle, and then choose a random lyric from each song!

Then, everyone can vote on their favorite lyric! I’ll start

You can take his cash but you’re still the cheaper version

Every shoulder you’ve leaned on is the one you will turn on

Scream I’m just like my parents and giving up easy

And since the Lord forgot my gay awakenin’

I won’t be the cure for the scars you’ve earned

Do you think Caesar felt more wounded in the back or in the heart

When the truth comes out it’s quiet

I love you more than you’ll ever wrap your head around

I’ve Made Bigger Mistakes Than You

We are the gods, the fates, the deity to which you should kneel

I swore lips were made for lies

Rocks shattered my glass house and I’m looking for someone else to blame

Voting ended onNov 5, 2025

@polls-everyday @pollsaregr8 and anyone else who wants to join

If anyone is curious, the songs are

Always be a fan by Eva Grace

Ain’t no Crying by Derivakat

Mountain with a View by Kelsea Ballerini

Slim Pickins by Sabrina Carpenter

Fireproof by Against The Current

Weird Hills by Janani K. Jha

Cassandra by Taylor Swift

In Case You Dont Live Forever by Ben Platt

Bigger Mistakes by Mitchell Tenpenny

Take the Shot by Lydia the Bard

Alley Rose by Conan Gray

One of Those Days by Nicole Sophia

[pollsaregr8]

I’ll go!

I can finally see you’re as fucked up as me

Would’ve been the Best Mistake

I want you to be here but please don’t come near

All the pretty girls hate their thighs

And I’ll be in denial for at least a little while

And spite’s as good a reason to take his power

Yeah I like my bed but it likes you too

I Will Fall in love with you over and over again

I tried to look away but you can’t look away from a train wreck

Fortune’s Flame will never dim

Considering I have feelings I’m like why are my clothes still on?

If what we had was real, how could you be fine?

Voting ended onNov 5, 2025

@poll-position @wisegirl42

My songs are

Sick of losing soulmates by Dodie

Ruin the Friendship by Taylor Swift

Despair by leo

All the Pretty Girls by Elizabeth Gerardi

TV by Billie Eilish

As good a reason by Paris Paloma

Already Over by Sabrina Carpenter

Would you fall in love with me again from Epic the Musical

Death of a Hero by Alec Benjamin

Against the Tide by Sail North

Tears by Sabrina Carpenter

Amnesia by 5SOS

[poll-position]

Choose wisely!

Just don’t give up, I am working it out

Are you really gonna love me when I'm gone?

No earthly ships will ever bring him home again

And if somebody loves you, won’t they always love you?

Pretend like it's the weekend now, and we could pretend it all the time

How can you understand something that you never had?

Either way, it's okay, you wake up with yourself

Now I know my life has given me more than memories

And the world's alive with the sound of kids on the street outside

I'm a million miles smarter, but I ain't learned a thing

Use the needle of your compass to sew up your broken heart

And all my cares just drift right into space

Remaining time: 4 days 7 hours

Whataya Want From Me? (Adam Lambert)

I Of The Storm (Of Monsters and Men)

My Lover’s Gone (Dido)

Where Do Broken Hearts Go (Whitney Houston)

Banana Pancakes (Jack Johnson)

Let Me Love You (Ne-Yo)

My Life (Billy Joel)

Whenever I Call You “Friend” (Kenny Loggins)

Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Belinda Carlisle)

Trouble (Avicii)

If You’re Going Through Hell (Rodney Atkins)

Up On the Roof (James Taylor)

[atlas1804]

I’ll give it a go!

Pick a lyric from my liked songs!

I remember your song that no one else could ever know. A melody just for me *

I bite my tongue to keep the worst of the words in so they don’t hurt nobody**

Our floating pale blue ark of endless forms most beautiful

Caress the one, the never fading rain in your heart, the tears of ***

Time will change you, you’ll leave behind what doesn’t move

The music of this awe, deep silence between the notes deafens me with ****

It’s a long winter but one day it’ll be long gone

Floor Grape Floor Grape, covered in hair, where are you rolling to down there?

Remaining time: 5 days 23 hours

*an echo of eternity

** but me

***snow white sorrow

****endless love

[corrya]

With the end of the first major arc, here's a new ship form for my own curiosity! I swear I'll remember to share the results this time :P

Critical role 4 ship form

[thememedaddy]

[isuggestrevolution]

i suggest not letting it get this far

[atlas1804]

[specialagentartemis]

something I explained to my brother yesterday that rocked his world: it’s not that scientists can’t decide whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable, nor is it that it’s “really” one or the other. It’s both, because we’re talking about two different categorization schemes.

Botanically, a tomato is a fruit. A fruit is scientifically defined as the part of a plant that develops from the ovary after flowering and surrounds the seeds. It’s defined by its structure and function. In botanical categorization, apples, peaches, grapes, tomatoes, bananas, avocados, pumpkins, peppers, and corn kernels are fruits.

Culinarily, a tomato is a vegetable, because it’s a plant food that is neither starchy nor sweet and you usually don’t just eat it raw. Vegetables are culinarily defined by their flavor and how you cook them. In culinary categorization, any part of a plant can be a vegetable: roots (carrots, parsnips), leaves (lettuce, kale), stems (celery), seeds (peas, lima beans), and yes fruits (tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins). In culinary categorization, “fruits” are usually botanical fruits, though occasionally they are other parts of the plant instead, as long as they’re juicy and sweet (strawberries are actually the stems of a plant; the ovaries surrounding the seeds are the little seeds on the outside! Pineapples and figs are a weird flower-ovary fusion called multiple inflorescence!)

These are simply two different categorizational schemes that through the weirdness of historical linguistics use the same word “fruit” to mean different segments of the totality of plants. Neither is incorrect, because they are two different ways of categorizing plants for two different purposes.

Categories aren’t “real.” Categories don’t exist in nature. Things exist in nature, plants exist in nature, rocks and animals and genes and hormones and human experiences exist in nature. And humans look at the totality of everything and we come up with names and categories to sort and understand them. A category is not real; it is only useful or not useful. Botanical categories are useful for different reasons than culinary categories are, but they’re both useful ways to break up and understand the world. And they are useful in their own contexts, and may not be useful in other contexts. Botany has no use for defining what is and isn’t a “vegetable” so that’s just not a category in scientific botany. It’s a useful category for low-sweetness low-starch plant parts you cook in order to eat, though.

And we put everything into categories, and we have reasons for categorizing things the way we do—but we choose what traits are important to group by, and what traits aren’t. Vegetables, nuts, fruits, and grains are culinary plant food categories. And some categories are silly, like “is a taco a sandwich?” That’s a categorization game: what traits do we decide make an individual item part of the category or not?

But we categorize other things too. Sex, gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, DSM diagnosis. Age categories such as senior/adult/teenager/child/toddler/infant, or age categories like adult/minor. These are all categorization schemes where humans decided what the categories are and what traits make an individual count as one thing or another. And then we decided how to treat people based on the category we assigned them to. The traits (such as hormones, genital shape, number of years having lived, brain neurochemistry, place where you were born, desire for a romantic relationship with people of a certain gender, desire for a sexual relationship with people of a certain gender…) are real. The categories are how we prioritize, classify, and understand them. Are the categories useful? Or are they not useful? In what contexts are they useful and in what contexts are they not? And what are the effects of playing “is a taco a sandwich? Is a tomato a fruit?” type categorization games with people?

[atlas1804]

All models are broken, but some are useful

[cognitohazardous]

maybe

[atlas1804]

lemme ID it for yoo

[raccoonmilf]

Reblog if ur an empty vessel for rabies

[atlas1804]

[paperandpencilsandskips]

Dead wife but it's a flashback to an amazing sandwich you had 3 years ago

[teaboot]

sick fuck ate his wife

[atlas1804]

sick fuck married a sandwich

[atlas1804]

something that’s really struck me is how much of a nothingburger nonentity the individual Revolutionary Council members seem to be, based on the utter lack of their involvement thus far. Like we’ve met maybe (?) one? And that was barely a throwaway line which was immediately overshadowed. Like if you were gonna start a revolt a good idea might be scouting out individuals already in power who might be sympathetic to the cause? Maybe they’ve got their own subterfuge brewing in other parts of the city idk? I do not believe for one second Brennan is not up to something here.

[pukicho]

There’s nothing worse than having hot milk on a gross summer day

[mrsandman42069]

cw unreality

[atlas1804]

could be worse. could be hot salty milk.

[twinstxrs]

azune never attempting to dance around difficult questions or topics has endeared me to him so much. ask julien if he has a death wish and ask bolaire if he’s a person or a thing. tell murray you worry she might start to hate you because of the institution you work for and tell hal you think thjazi’s life was worth a thousand of yours. get to the heart of the issue and tell everyone how you really feel regardless of whether or not those feelings are easily palatable. every chance for honesty is a privilege. don’t ever take it for granted.

[atlas1804]

Lying Man who lies and is a lying liar surprisingly very honest.

[avastarrwalker]

no other pair could be more found divorced than them 💀

[atlas1804]

[karrakazz]

like. ok. you have smart people who are not very curious (fine but boring) and you have smart people who are curious (cool) and you have dumb people who are not that curious (fine but boring) and you have dumb people who are curious (fun). and then you have to add an axis for superiority complex. we're in a cube now. smart people who are not very curious and dont have a notable superiority complex - fine. smart people who are not very curious and have a superiority complex - infuriating. etc etc. dumb people who are curious AND have a superiority complex are gold. ideal coworker. ideal internet observation subject. love these people so much. i will go wherever you go. does this make sense. i wish i could draw this

[atlas1804]

Thoughts on Leclerc's lament

"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." - Aldo Leopold

Thinking about Leclerc's lament in Antarctica and this quote from conservation writer, Aldo Leopold. I do not envy Leclerc, most of us live in that world of wounds, but to bear witness to the greatest one of his lifetime, a last ditch effort to somehow counteract yet another of those wounds. He saw with his own eyes one more wound to the planet, so monumental, so preventable, so deliberate, so destructive. I do not know any in our field who could do anything but weep in his situation.

[atlas1804]

since eridians use exclusively external fertilization, do you think they're absolutely horrified of human internal fertilization. like they probably think about it on equal terms as we think of the whole Xenomorph queen thing, speaking of which, I wonder what they'd think of our literary use of "penetrative allegories" like vampires or xenomorphs.

And please no one tell them how bed bugs reproduce.

[justsomeguycore]

maybe i will performatively go to the farmers market and performatively buy some flowers to performatively let stick out my performative tote bag and performatively have a nice time

[atlas1804]

performatively? Maybe. but ya know what? That’s ok. The performance is for me.

[atlas1804]

why do people keep saying "community" when they mean "demographic".

i dont know all those people.

[medievalsquire]

the town crier keeps announcing increasingly dire news and then immediately saying “but do not panic” which feels contradictory

[atlas1804]

He still has yet more urgent tidings to bear! You may panic when he’s done.

there will be little else you can do.